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: The legal purchase age is 18 for beer and wine, and 21 for liquor. Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, and South Dakota: The legal purchase age is 18 for 3.2% ABV beer, and 21 for beer stronger than 3.2% ABV, wine, and liquor.
The state doesn’t have a minimum age requirement for buying a firearm. Instead, Missouri law forbids "recklessly" selling, loaning or otherwise giving a firearm to someone under the age of 18 ...
Missouri's drinking age has been 21 since 1945. [51] That is, Missouri law prohibits minors from possessing or purchasing alcohol. Thus, when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 came into effect on January 1, 1985, Missouri was in no danger of losing federal highway funds.
These laws first appeared in the late nineteenth century, with New Jersey becoming the first state to set a minimum purchase age of sixteen in 1883. [3] By 1920, around half of states had their minimum purchase age of twenty-one and some simply prohibited "minors" (ages 14–24) from purchasing. [3]
The House on Wednesday passed a series of new gun measures, including raising the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21.
The permitless carry provision of the bill went into effect on January 1, 2017. The bill instituted a de facto elimination of the minimum age for concealed carry. A concealed carry permit is required to carry in the state capitol, but one may not carry in the House and Senate chamber floor, gallery and committee meeting rooms. [16]
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As of July 1988, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had a minimum purchase age of 21, with some grandfather clauses, and with the exception of Louisiana's complicated legal situation that was not resolved until July 2, 1996. [1] [2] Prior to 1988, the minimum purchase age varied by jurisdiction. After enactment of the Act, states not in ...